RE: [Webware-discuss] rawInput does not work?

[Geoffrey T. <gta...@na...>]

Note: these comments apply to Webware 0.8.  I haven't looked at CVS
recently.
 
request.rawInput() only works if the request has an "irregular" content-type
such as text/xml which is what you get with XML-RPC, or
text/x-python-pickled-dict which is Pickle-RPC.  If the content-type is one
of the standard types multipart/form-data or
application/x-www-form-urlencoded, then the raw input is processed into
fields and discarded when the HTTPRequest object is initialized, presumably
for memory reasons.  This is all done in the Python standard library cgi
module, so it would be a bit of work for us to pry that apart and handle it
in a different way.
 
I have a suspicion that what you want to do is to reconstruct the raw input
in order to re-POST it to another HTTP server.  If so, then for
application/x-www-form-urlencoded data something like
 
    urllib.urlencode(self.request().fields(), doseq=1)
 
should work fine.
 
- Geoff
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Aaron Held [mailto:aaron@MetroNY.com]
Sent: Monday, April 28, 2003 3:37 PM
To: cp...@fo...
Cc: jo...@cy...; web...@li...
Subject: Re: [Webware-discuss] rawInput does not work?


One of the problems seems to be that Webware just sucks up all of the raw
input.  Is there a way to recoved this?

I want to pull out the POST data directly, is there a good way?
The POST data is already in FieldStorage, but I want it just the way the
browser sent it.

Thanks,
-Aaron

Chris Prinos wrote:


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I can't seem to get self.request().rawInput() (with or

without the rewind=1

option) to work.



Essentually I have a webpage that calls a servlet via a

form/Post and if I

then call self.writeln(self.request().rawInput()) I get back

None.  Now I

know the form is sending some data, because all it does is

send a hidden

variable.  Any thoughts as to what I am doing worng?

    



rawInput will only return a file if the data being POSTed can't be consumed

by the cgi/FieldStorage code first. If you're using a typical form posting,

then the content type would be application/x-www-form-urlencoded  and the

data from the form gets sent as encoded name value pairs. You can access

them from your servlet code using self.request().field(myFormFieldName). If

it's a multipart form, then you can get to the parts using

self.request().fieldStorage()



In either of those two cases there won't be a file available from

rawInput(), it's already been processed by that point. This shouldn't be a

problem though, as you should be able to access all the data through

self.request().field() or self.request().fieldStorage()



For content-types other than application/x-www-form-urlencoded or

multipart/form-data, you can use rawInput().



Chris







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